Welcome to our Website
A Site Dedicated to the Blue Macaws and Parrot Conservation
This unique site - the only one of its kind - is dedicated to the gathering and dissemination of information about the Blue Macaws, the Anodorhynchus group of parrots, and the promotion of parrot conservation. We hope that you will enjoy perusing our site, which is full of information from all over the world about the Blue Macaws.
Information about Blue Macaws
We have comprehensive information on and images of the Hyacinthine Macaw ( A.hyacinthinus), the Lear’s Macaw (A.leari) and Glaucous Macaw (A.glaucus) as well as the extremely rare Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii).
Preservation of the Blue Macaws and their Habitat - Can You Help?
If you are curious about these birds, their conservation or indeed interested in doing something however small or large, to preserve this magnificent and captivating species, by the development and implementation of workable strategies to protect and save parrot species from extinction, or if you can contribute any more to the cause of protecting their fast disappearing habitat in Brazil, which is threatened by the ever present threat from the human population, then we will be delighted to hear from you - please get in touch by email.
Quotes
" Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret "
( If you drive out nature with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back)
Horace (65-8 BC)"Creatures who have traveled with us through the ages are now apparently doomed, as their habitat - and the old, old habitat of humans - falls before the slow-motion explosion of expanding world economies"
Gary Snyder (1990)"We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell..."
Martin Prechtel (1998)"The clock is no longer just ticking – it’s ringing an alarm, and if we don’t listen the consequences for people and biodiversity will be catastrophic.”
Dr. Fred Boltz, Conservation International (2009)Latest News
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Thursday 13th March 2025
Weitere gute Nachrichten aus dem Pantanal
Es gibt noch mehr gute Nachrichten aus dem Pantanal über die Auswilderung der Spix-Aras. Am 3. März 2025 wurde folgendes berichtet. Es war der Welttag des Artenschutzes (World Wildlife Day) und es gab viel zu feiern in Bezug auf die Spix ... Read More »
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Monday 10th February 2025
Klimawandel in Pantanal
Cromwell Purchase , der sich seit Jahren um den Erhalt und die Wiederansiedlung des Spix-Aras bemüht, warnt vor den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Art. Das ursprüngliche Verbreitungsgebiet der Art überschneidet sich mit dem G ... Read More »
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Thursday 11th July 2024
Ein sehr interessanter Artikel ist in der Juli 2024 Ausgabe von Papageien erschienen. Diesen Artikel kann man unter Spix-Aras im Inhaltsverzeichnis finden
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